{"instruction": "You are an expert in event argument extraction. Please extract event arguments and their roles from the input that conform to the schema definition, which already includes event trigger words. If an argument does not exist, return NAN or an empty dictionary. Please respond in the format of a JSON string.", "schema": [{"event_type": "ransom", "arguments": ["place", "payment method", "victim", "time", "damage amount", "price", "tool", "attack pattern"]}], "input": "Officials in Mecklenburg , N.C. must make a difficult decision by 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday : They must choose whether to pay two bitcoins — currently worth about $ 25,000 — to hackers who are holding the county ’s computer files for ransom , [ Update : they refused to pay ] ."}
{"ransom": [{"place": "Mecklenburg , N.C.", "payment method": "NAN", "victim": ["They", "Officials"], "time": "Wednesday", "damage amount": "NAN", "price": ["$ 25,000", "two bitcoins"], "tool": "NAN", "attack pattern": "NAN"}]}